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Evaluative conversations: Translating between diverse stakeholders in regional RRI projects

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  • Tjitske Holtrop, Leiden University
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  • Ingeborg Meijer, Leiden University
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  • Paula Ootero-hermida, Polytechnic University of Valencia
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  • Anestis Amanatidis, Leiden University
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  • Chiara Buongiovanni, APRE - Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea
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  • Donatella Casale, University of Haifa
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  • Claudia Colonnello, Knowledge and Innovation (K&I)
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  • Alessandro Deserti, Polytechnic University of Milan
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  • Fabio Feudo, Knowledge and Innovation (K&I)
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  • Alan Hartman, University of Haifa
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  • Marianne Hörlesberger, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
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  • Ildiko M. Ipolyi, ESF
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  • Nhien Nguyen, Nordland Research Institute
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  • Mika Nieminen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland
  • Gabriele Quinti, Knowledge and Innovation (K&I)
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  • Tine Ravn
  • Francesca Rizzo, Polytechnic University of Milan
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  • Felicitas Schmittinger, Polytechnic University of Milan
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  • Norbert Steinhaus, Bonn Science Shop
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  • Roger Strand, University of Bergen, Norway
  • Thomas Völker, University of Bergen
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  • Rene Wintjes, Maastricht University
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  • Emad Yaghmaei, Delft University of Technology
Since the summer of 2020, researchers from ten projects pertaining to the Horizon2020 Science with and for Society (SwafS) call have been meeting virtually as the SwafS14 Monitoring and Evaluation ecosystem. Topics of discussion were the trials and tribulations of their regional Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) projects as well as their strategies for monitoring and evaluation. In this paper we make a first attempt at presenting these issues as problems of translation between different kinds of stakeholders. After an exploration of the diversity of stakeholders and the process of translation in regional RRI, we suggest evaluative conversations as a way of improving regional RRI. We intend to develop this idea in the future and that these conversations will facilitate more responsible and engaged monitoring and evaluation and contribute to better R&I policies.
Original languageEnglish
Journalfteval Journal for Science and Technology Policy Evaluation
Volume53
Pages (from-to)77-84
Number of pages8
ISSN1726-6629
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2022

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